Three people died and six others were injured in an accident involving three buses in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai Saturday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

The accident happened at 12:15 p.m. when the first bus, traveling on a road in Duc Pho District, tried to go past a bus parked by the road for repairs, and grazed a third coming in the opposite direction.

It then crashed into the second bus, badly damaging its back and side.

The driver and the owner of the second bus, and a mechanic died on the spot.

Six out of the around 100 passengers in the first and the second buses were seriously injured.